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45 Singles You Just Had to Buy

In the bad old days before the internet & streaming😀, what pieces of music did you have to purchase on a 45rpm single because there was no other genuine way of getting them home? The trouble was that more often than not, an album cut of a rock-and-roll hit would be a different version/take/mix of the one you loved hearing on the radio. Which means you just had to get the 45.

Here's a random handful of mine --

Hanky Panky -- Tommy James & the Shondells

Save the Country -- Laura Nyro

She Don't Care about Time and Change is Now -- The Byrds

Baby Please Don't Go -- Them

Candy Girl -- Four Seasons

The Battle of New Orleans -- Johnny Horton

edcyn
tylermunns
601 posts
 

@lowrider57 Yeah, I don’t know the degree to which those transcontinental track listings were decided by the artists, if at all.
“We’ll just decide for the US LP that track 3 is expendable and replace it with a single.”  
“This previously-released EP should be an album. We’ll just tag some other stuff onto it, call it a ‘new album.’” 

officerat
18 posts
 

12" Purple Rain, by Prince.  I cranked it up the night he died.  Even my wife felt the loss.

tylermunns
601 posts
 

@officerat I love my “Let’s Pretend We’re Married” 12”.  
Mainly because it has “Irresistible Bitch” as the B-side

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clearthinker
1,582 posts
 

'Offshore Banking Business'    The Members

Ghostbusters theme, on 12 inch.   Played loud.

boxcarman
427 posts
 

1st 45 I bought was 'I'm Henry the eighth I am'. I was 11 or 12.  Best value for a kid goes to 'Paperback writer'  because the flip side was 'Rain'.  One Lennon and one McCartney.  Wow for a 13 yr old.

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